Concubine Li smiled silently.

The emperor has read poetry and books since she was a child, and it just so happens that she is the same, and the two naturally resonate.

If it weren't for that, Empress Zhou wouldn't have to bother studying so hard, and she would have to let the famous Confucian scholars in the court talk to her.

"The emperor is elegant, so the harem sisters from the queen to us naturally learn to be elegant."

Concubine Li said this very humbly, and Yuan Zhi couldn't help but smile when he thought of Queen Zhou's diligent study every day.

Queen Zhou is just diligent in her studies, and she always pulls the eldest prince who is only two months old, as if the eldest prince can understand her reading.

The eldest prince seems to really understand, every time Queen Zhou reads to him, he always listens with his eyes wide open, neither crying nor sleeping......

Yuan Zhi shook his head with a smile and looked at Concubine Li, "If you want to say that in the harem, the only ones who are really good at reading and elegant are the queen and you." If the concubine can learn more from you, I don't have to worry about her teaching children badly in the future. ”

When Concubine Li heard this, she was touched.

Seeing Xiao Jizi coming over with tea, she hurriedly took it and took it to Yuanzhi with her own hands, "The concubine went back to Kunning Palace to ask for peace, and the queen said that after the birth of the concubine's child, if the princess is raised by the concubine." If he is a prince, he will also be raised by a concubine until he is at least four or five years old. Thinking that the queen can trust the ability of her sister, isn't the emperor worried? ”

"Did the queen tell you that?"

Yuan Zhi smiled, "It seems that the queen is trustworthy and concubine." Anyway, the queen is the master of the harem, and she has a lot of dealings with you, and she knows you better than me, and she is in charge of these things. ”

When Concubine Li heard this, she knew that Empress Zhou swore in her last reply, but she didn't discuss it with the emperor.

The reason why she is so confident is that she knows that the emperor will definitely support her decision.

Today's emperor's reaction also proves that even if he didn't know before, he didn't mean to interfere with Empress Zhou's decision at this moment.

Concubine Li couldn't help but think of her own children in the future, and she was a little distracted.

Motoji was keenly aware of her wandering, "What's wrong, what are you thinking?" ”

"Oh...... It's nothing. ”

Concubine Li smiled: "The concubine is thinking, even if she and her sister are still deficient now, she will naturally be diligent as a mother in the future." There is a queen mother's words and deeds, and the emperor does not have to worry. ”

She complimented Queen Zhou in her words, Yuan Zhi was really useful, smiled and nodded, "The queen is naturally good, and now many ministers in the court and the central government compare the queen mother with the queen mother, saying that the queen has learned the queen mother's demeanor very well." It's strange that the queen mother lives in the imperial garden and doesn't meet the queen often, but the queen always talks about how the queen mother is, and uses the queen mother as a benchmark everywhere, as if the two of them are together every day. ”

Concubine Li only heard the front and didn't have the heart to listen to the words in the back.

The minister of the court praised Empress Zhou?

Even said that she looked like the Queen Mother?

What status the queen mother has in the minds of the ministers of the court, Concubine Li knows it in the boudoir, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not unusual for the queen mother to want to establish herself as the emperor.

But in the end, she still didn't get involved in the end, and left the country left by the first emperor to the current emperor, so the old ministers in the court admired her very much.

And Empress Zhou ...... She deserves it too?

Concubine Li thought that she had lost her reputation due to her disgrace with Concubine He, and compared with the two, she had mixed feelings in her heart.

She hurriedly said: "The concubines will definitely take the queen mother as a model, learn the style of the queen mother, and don't let the emperor worry about the affairs of the harem." ”

"That's not necessary."

Yuan Zhi stood in front of the window and looked at the vase of peach blossoms that had just been inserted, and said naturally: "The queen learns from the queen mother, that is what she should do as a middle palace." As for you, as long as you keep the virtues of concubines, there will be no hope for me. ”

The middle palace and the concubine are worlds apart.

Even if the emperor mentioned her and Queen Zhou together, saying that they were the best students in the harem, in his heart, the two of them were one wife and one concubine, and they were different.

Concubine Li knew that this was Yuanzhi's heart, and she seemed to finally understand why she couldn't be as favored as Queen Zhou.

It's not because she's not as good as Queen Zhou, it's just because she's not a queen or a wife.

What a sad truth.

Yuan Zhi didn't notice Concubine Li's thoughts at all, he stretched out his hand and fiddled with the peach blossoms in the bottle, and only said: "The peach blossoms in the imperial garden bloom very well every year, I remember that when the queen mother was in the palace, she also liked it very much, and she also made peach blossom soup for me to eat." I want to come to the queen and like it too, Xiao Jizi, send someone to fold some and send it to Kunning Palace! ”

"Yes."

Xiao Kiko answered in a low voice and went out to make people go to the imperial garden to pick alders.

As soon as she turned around, Concubine Li walked over to him with a smile, "If the queen likes it, it can be regarded as a concubine who is not busy in vain today." The concubine also saw a lot of peach trees in the imperial garden last time, it turned out that the queen mother liked it, no wonder so many were planted in the imperial garden. ”

"yes."

Yuan Zhi responded casually, and suddenly saw that Xiao Jizi, who had just gone out, turned his head and came back, holding a letter in his hand, "Your Majesty, the documents just sent by the northwest, please enlighten the emperor." ”

"Northwest? Could it be the Dzungar Ministry? ”

"Yes."

Xiao Jizi said: "After the surrender of the Jungger Ministry, now it is considered to be recuperating and settling down, I don't know what to ask for, I sent the excerpt to the emperor." ”

"Give it to me."

Yuanzhi took the fold, opened it and looked at it, frowning slightly.

Concubine Li saw his expression and felt that it was not a good time for her to be here, so she was about to leave, "Since the emperor is busy with political affairs, the concubines will retire first and not disturb the emperor." ”

"Not necessarily."

Yuan Zhi stopped her, "You can also listen to this matter, the Junggar Ministry is going to send their Great Khan's daughter to Beijing and dedicate it to me as a concubine." ”

"Huh?"

Concubine Li didn't want this to be the case, but she was stunned, "So, there is a new sister in the harem?" ”

She is quite complicated in her heart, now that there are few concubines in the palace, she is quite calm, if a newcomer comes, or a foreigner like the Jungar Ministry, I don't know what storm will be set off.

Yuan Zhi said: "After the surrender of the Junggar tribe, I have made their khan the prince, and his daughter the lord of the county. Now he wants to send Lord Minmin to Beijing to make me a concubine, but I don't know what his idea is. ”

Seeing that Yuanzhi didn't have much joy, Concubine Li said boldly: "Your Majesty, the concubine said something that shouldn't be said, foreign women are inevitably rude, and it is reluctant to understand Chinese characters, I'm afraid the emperor won't like it." ”

Even if the woman to be sent is the county lord, I am afraid that it is not as good as the daughter of an ordinary official eunuch in the capital.

Yuan Zhi nodded, "I don't want many strange foreign women in the palace to avoid more complications. That's it, you go back first, Xiao Jizi, and summon Su Shoufu and Uncle Yongwang. ”